Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 390 Consecutive Two Cities (4000)

The Han River is roughly divided into three sections. The first section runs from the Hanzhong Basin to the east, with the Qinling Mountains on the north and the Daba Mountains on the south. In the east of the Hanshui Valley, go west along the Hanshui Valley and pass through Weixing County to reach Hanzhong.

The second section goes south from the Hanshui Valley and runs north-south. It is located between the Jingshan Mountains and the Dahongshan Mountains, Xiangyang County in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Nanliang Changning ([-] miles northwest of Jingmen, Hubei)), Jingling (Zhongxiang, Hubei) two The counties are all in this section of the Han River.

The third section resumes its east-west direction again and flows into the Yangtze River.

The Dahong Mountain Range is the Lvlin Mountain Range in the Han Dynasty. Although it runs north-south, it is also the border of Qi and Liang.

On the east side of the mountain range, a Suizao Corridor is formed between the Tongbai Mountain Range, which is owned by Nanliang and defends the Jianghan Plain.

The Tongbai Mountains and the Dabie Mountains running from northwest to southeast form another Qi-Liang border, and the easternmost part of the Qi-Liang border is bounded by the Yangtze River.

On May 549th in the second year of Zhaode ([-]), Gao Cheng issued a call to action against Xiao Yi, using his troops to interrogate Xiao Yi on the grounds that he had failed to assassinate him and dared not confront him face to face.

With Hou Jing, the governor of Jingzhou, leading his [-] troops as the vanguard, he marched directly along the Jingxiang Corridor, the passage between the west of the Han River and Jingshan Mountain, to Changning County in Nanliang (Jingmen, Hubei).

There are 5000 cavalry, [-] soldiers, and [-] state and county soldiers. With Murong Shaozong as the governor, Gao Jishi, Yuan Jing'an, Wei Xingqing and other generals will be controlled from the east of the Han River to the Dahong Mountain. The channel, sent troops Jingling.

He also summoned [-] sailors who were on standby in Yuzhou to move westward and move to Hanshui to respond.

Gao Cheng himself led the main force to sit in Xiangyang, watching the situation quietly.

On May 24, Hou Jing's army rushed to the outside of Changning City first.

The name Changning may be unfamiliar to many people. In the late Han Dynasty, this place was also known as Dangyang. In the interpretation of the novel, Zhao Yun rescued Adou by riding alone, and Zhang Fei shouted Cao Mengde away, all happened near here.

At this time, the guards of Changning City will be Du Wei, the second of the Du family's eight steeds, and Du You'an, the younger brother.

Hou Jing dispatched general Ren Yue to lead [-] soldiers to call for a battle. The Du brothers had heard the news early that Gao Cheng's army was far away in Xiangyang, and it was Hou Jing's men who were the vanguards who attacked this time.

Over the years guarding Changning, he has dealt with Hou Jing, an old neighbor. Although in the past, he usually joined forces with Wang Sengbian, the prefect of Jingling to the east of Hanshui, to expel him, but the Du brothers did not fear him.

Du Youan asked his elder brother for orders, and led his troops out of the city to fight Ren Yue. Du Yi knew that his younger brother was extremely brave, no less brave than one-eyed Du Yi, so he ordered [-] defenders for Du Youan, and he himself led the remaining [-] soldiers to support him. .

The gate of Changning city opened slowly, Du Youan led the army to rush out, and rushed straight to Ren Yue.

Ren Yue's trip has two purposes. One is to hit the morale of Changning's defenders if the Liang army does not fight.

Second, if Liang Jun goes to battle, he will pretend to be defeated and lead them to Hou Jing's ambush.

Seeing Du Youan coming to kill with a spear at this moment, he couldn't just turn around and leave, otherwise he would yell in the city for a long time, and run away as soon as he came, it would be too fake.

Ren Yue slapped his horse to fight, but his skills were not as good as others, and he was defeated in the contest with Du Youan. Fortunately, his subordinate Zhao Jialou rescued him desperately, and he escaped with his life, but the false defeat became a real defeat. Zhao Jialou was beheaded by Du Youan.

Du You'an won the head of Zhao Jialou, but he no longer chased after him, but led the crowd back to the city. At the head of Changning City, the Liang army was full of joy.

Hou Jing saw that Ren Yue came back in disgrace, but there were no pursuers behind him. He couldn't help but feel disappointed. Later, he learned that he failed to lure the enemy, but instead killed hundreds of people and two generals. Although he didn't scold Ren Yue, he still kept some Feeling angry, I can't help but regret: Song Zixian should have been allowed to fight if I knew it earlier.

After all, the front line suffered defeat, and Hou Jing didn't dare to hide it. After all, pensions were to be issued after the war, so he sent someone to Xiangyang to deliver a letter.

Gao Cheng, who lives in Xiangyang, heard the news about Changning. Although he was angry at Hou Jing's setback, he also got a plan.

At the same time, Murong Shaozong, who had taught Hou Jing soldiers and horses, also led his troops to Jingling. He obeyed Gao Cheng's order, set up camp outside the city, and ordered the soldiers to build siege equipment.

Since he was traveling in the name of patrolling, it was naturally impossible to carry siege equipment. Hou Jing wanted to use the siege equipment stored in Xiangyang City, so Murong Shaozong had to make temporary ones.

After Murong Shaozong built the equipment, he never saw the siege. On the second day of June in the second year of Zhaode (549), Murong Shaozong suddenly led his army back for thirty li, neither attacking the city nor retreating, as if he was fighting with the city. Jingling defenders fought a sit-in war.

This abnormal situation attracted Xiao Yi's attention. At the same time, rumors began to spread in Jiangling City, that is, Northern Qi secretly sent envoys into Jingling City, trying to say that it was sincerity for Murong Shaozong to lead the army back.

Wang Sengbian has followed Xiao Yi for decades, but because of his status as a foreigner returning from the north, although he is highly valued, he still cannot get Xiao Yi's complete trust.

The reason why Gao Cheng came up with this divorce plan was because he thought of an incident that happened between their masters and ministers in another time and space.

Xiao Yi once sent Wang Sengbian to push Xiangzhou, but Wang Sengbian's troops had not assembled yet, so he could not leave in time, which aroused Xiao Yi's suspicion.

When Wang Sengbian asked Xiao Yi for an extension, he was stabbed by Xiao Yi and handed over to Ting Wei for punishment. Only because of the defeat on the front line, he had to use Wang Sengbian to attack Changsha again.

Ten years of friendship between the masters and ministers, just because they failed to send troops in time, they had to draw their swords against each other. The suspicion was so heavy. Now that the Northern Qi army is overwhelming, Xiao Yi and Wang Sengbian are separated from each other, supplemented by rumors, and Wang Sengbian How could Xiao Yi sit still with his identity as a foreigner returning from the north.

Sure enough, Xiao Yi ordered Du Yi to take over Wang Seng's defense of Jingling and recall him.

When Wang Seng heard the news, he was filled with resentment. He really had no contact with Qi people.

Of course, Gao Cheng never really thought about contacting Wang Sengbian. This guy was jealous, he was stabbed by Xiao Yi, and he worked desperately for him.

Although Wang Sengbian was not angry with Xiao Yi's suspicion, he obediently handed over his military power, and returned to Jiangling with his two sons, Wang Yi and Wang Xuan, who were guarding the city with him.

As soon as Du Yi took office, Murong Shaozong immediately sent Yuan Jing'an to lead 2000 prefecture soldiers as vanguards, and set up camp five miles north of Jingling City, making a gesture of besieging the city. Among the [-] vanguards, they were divided into [-] men Patrolling the city defense was like preparing for the subsequent siege.

The former Wang Sengbian sat quietly with the Qi army, was tainted by rumors, and was recalled to Jiangling. Du Yi himself was a general who was used to fighting in battle, and he had long wanted to fight with the Qi army. He also divided his troops to patrol, seeing that the opportunity for war was rare, so he left more than 170 people to guard the city, and led [-] death squads under his command and [-] defenders out of the north gate to attack the soldiers camped in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

It was also a strategy to lure the enemy, unlike Hou Jing who set up an ambush and waited for the Changning defenders to enter the urn, Murong Shaozong's ambush was to attack proactively.

Du Yi just killed to the location where the Northern Qi camp was selected, but he heard shouts of killing everywhere, but they were not coming towards him. He saw all the [-] state and county soldiers who had patrolled the city before gathered at the north gate to block his way back to the city. In front of the , south and west gates, Murong Shaozong also appeared suddenly in ambush and formed an array behind the city. Behind him, there were soldiers raising shields to guard against the arrows on the city.

But Gao Jishi led five thousand cavalry to attack Du Yi.

Only then did Du Yi realize that Murong Shaozong sent troops to camp just to lure him out of the city, and the ambush was also used to cut off his way back, so that Gao Ji's [-] cavalry could settle the battle outside the city.

This time, they just went out of the city to attack the encampment troops, and were prepared to retreat back to the city after a successful blow. Naturally, they went into battle lightly, and it was impossible to carry equipment such as repelling horses to guard against cavalry.

More than [-] light infantry and [-] cavalry met in the field, and most of them were long and short weapons, with few bows and arrows, and they would not bring archers with them when they went out of the city to attack. Du Yi left all the archers in Jingling City.

Gao Jishi also found that there were no archers in Du Yi's army, so he was not in a hurry to charge, but kept a distance from him, and led [-] cavalry to kill the enemy with bows and arrows.

Du Yi knew in his heart that this battle would definitely be defeated, although Gao Ji's style of leisurely flying a kite did not come close, it was because he was still two or three miles away from Jingling City.

If he tried to break through the obstacles of the Qi army in front of the city gate regardless of his troops, Gao Jishi would definitely attack from behind. It is estimated that before reaching the gate of the city, the troops would have been killed and scattered. Fast on two legs.

Du Yi is also a temperament that can afford to let go. Seeing that the four gates are blocked, he cannot enter the city.

However, the soldiers under his command were used as archery targets, but they could not fight back. Now the army's morale has long been disturbed, and he led dozens of cavalry to abandon the army before Gao Ji's encirclement.

Du Yi thought he had seven brothers, all of whom Xiao Yi relied on. Even though Jingling was lost, it was impossible for Xiao Yi to kill him for this, especially when the Northern Qi army was pressing down on the border.

The rest of the Liang army abandoned their armor and surrendered one after another. Gao Jishi led more than a thousand cavalry to continue chasing and killing Du Yi, while the rest of the cavalry were left to guard and take prisoners.

The Liang army guarding the city saw the army rout outside the city, the main general fled, and no longer wanted to fight. Before Murong Shaozong gave the order to attack the city, the deputy general in the city opened the door to ask for surrender, and the gate on the east bank of the Han River was opened wide.

Soon after Murong Shaozong entered the city, Gao Jishi returned to Jingling unhappy. It turned out that Du Yi was going to flee south to Jiangling. Ji Shi was not familiar with geography, so he didn't continue to chase.

On the day Jingling was captured, a battle also took place in Changning on the other side of the Han River.

Hou Jing then sent Song Zixian to lead [-] soldiers to the city to call for a battle. Du Youan had previously defeated Ren Yue, and his arrogance gradually grew. However, Changning had a wide view outside the city, and there were no ambushes nearby. He led his troops out of the city again to fight Song Zixian.

However, this time he rushed to the horse, but was shot in the face by a hidden arrow and fell off the horse.

Not far from Song Zixian, a long-faced man dressed as an ordinary cavalry put away his bow and arrow.

Seeing this, Song Zixian shouted loudly:
"The thief general is dead, all the troops will follow me to kill, seal my wife and son, today!"

Qi Jun cheered up and followed Song Zixian to attack Liang Jun, but Liang Jun saw that the main general fell off his horse and didn't know whether he was alive or dead, so he was in chaos for a while and fled in all directions.

Du Youan died among the rebellious army, and he didn't know whether he was shot to death by an arrow or trampled to death.

Song Zixian cut off Du Youan's head and handed it to the long-faced man who was shooting arrows before. Although this man was dressed as a cavalry soldier, Song Zixian's expression was full of respect, and he only heard him compliment:

"I've heard for a long time that General Hulu was once known as the Governor of Luodiao, but seeing him today, he is worthy of the title of a sharp shooter."

It turned out that this person was Gao Cheng's confidant General Hu Luguang, Gao Cheng's plan because of Hou Jing's defeat was to send Hu Luguang to pretend to be a cavalry pawn, and when Du Youan was out of the city to fight, he shot Du You'an with a hidden arrow.

The key to this strategy lies in two points. One is Hu Luguang's shooting skills. Gao Cheng has never doubted this. Even the big eagles in the sky can be shot down. Attracted Du Youan.

The second is whether Du Youan will go out of the city. With the failure of the previous appointment, Gao Cheng believes that Du Youan will still leave the city with the mentality of taking advantage of it.

Hu Luguang took Du Youan's head, sized it up a few times, then threw it to Song Zixian and said:
"The governor of the Song Dynasty sent someone to hold this head and show it to the public at the bottom of the city. This is the heart of the defenders."

After finishing speaking, he pulled his horse and walked away. On the way, he met Hou Jing who was leading the army who wanted to besiege Changning. The two exchanged some pleasantries.

Hu Luguang nodded, and rode his horse towards Xiangyang.

Hou Jing's rhetoric of seizing the city in three days was not without purpose. There were originally 3000 defenders in Changning City, but Du You'an led [-] people out of the city to fight.

The defenders in the city were reduced by half, the defense was insufficient, and Du You'an was killed, the hearts of the people will definitely be shaken.

Under the siege of Hou Jing's [-] troops, how could he persist for three days.

Sure enough, on the second day of the siege, Du Yu was killed by his subordinates. He wanted to fight the Qi people to death because of his revenge for killing his brother, but the others were secretly planning to change the flag. No one was willing to die for Du Youan with him .

On the second day after the fall of Jingling, Changning City also fell into the hands of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Two of the Du family's eight steeds had already been lost.

Gao Cheng, who was in the rear, was overjoyed when he learned that the frontline troops had gone to Jingling and Changning within two days and opened up the road to Jiangling. He immediately ordered his former confidant governor Wei Xingqing to lead [-] troops to stay in Xiangyang, while he led the rest of the troops and his entourage. Gao Yang and Gao Yan went south to Changning.

When they reached Changbanpo, Little Gao Wang got off his horse and yelled twice. The generals were puzzled and asked why, but Gao Cheng laughed and didn't answer.

On June 549th of the second year of Zhaode ([-]), Gao Cheng held a celebration wine in the city of Changning. Even Murong Shaozong, Gao Jishi and other generals also crossed the Han River for a banquet, and stayed in Yuan Jing'an to guard Jingling.

Gao Cheng summoned the military officials to record the meritorious service of the generals and reward them together after the battle.

Different from the scene of people celebrating in Changning City, Jiangling City was gloomy and gloomy. Only then did Xiao Yi realize that he had been tricked by Gao Cheng's divorce, and hurriedly pleaded guilty to Wang Seng, and activated it again to assist him in defending Jiangling.

Of course, it was not without good news. The imperial court sent general Liu Zhongli to lead [-] elite soldiers to help.

It's not that Xiao Yan doesn't want to send more troops, but that in Huainan, Duan Shao, She Diqian, and Gao Yue are mobilizing troops, and their movements are unknown. Jiankang, this is the difficulty of not having a strategic depth. Jiankang, the capital of the country, is just across the river from Northern Qi.

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